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Microsoft’s open source AirSim platform comes to Unity
Microsoft announced a collaboration with Unity Technologies that’ll bring Microsoft Research’s AirSim, an open source aerial informatics and robotics platform, to Unity.
In the news | GeekWire
Microsoft plans to support Carnegie Mellon’s edge computing research with hardware, Azure services
Like cloud computing and mobile computing, edge computing will require new ways of thinking about application development; older methods designed for different styles of computing make certain assumptions about performance and availability that don’t necessarily make sense on the edge.
In the news | Microsoft Research Podcast
Hearing in 3D with Dr. Ivan Tashev
Dr. Ivan Tashev, a Partner Software Architect in the Audio and Acoustics Group at Microsoft Research, is no small part of the revolution, having both published papers and shipped products at the forefront of the science of sound.
In the news | VentureBeat
Why Microsoft, Tencent, and Intel are growing cucumbers in autonomous greenhouses
Researcher teams led by employees at Microsoft, Intel, and Tencent are participating in a cucumber-growing competition to operate autonomous greenhouses to explore artificial intelligence applications in indoor farming. Researcher teams led by employees at Microsoft, Intel, and Tencent are participating…
In the news | The Verge
Microsoft Word is getting a to-do feature to help people manage documents
Microsoft is starting to test a new to-do feature in Word today. The software maker found that a lot of people leave notes in their Word documents as placeholders to add more text, images, or charts. Microsoft is now making…
In the news | Engadget
Microsoft Word will automatically create to-do lists for you
Microsoft will start turning the notes you leave in Word documents into to-do lists. The company is testing a new feature in its word processor that will automatically detect notes and messages left for yourself and others and turn them…
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Microsoft Researchers named Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery
Jaime Teevan, Stefan Saroiu, and Jingdong Wang have been named Distinguished Members of the Association for Computing Machinery (opens in new tab) (ACM) for their significant contributions that have revolutionized how we live, work and play. This is an important honor as…
Designing the future with the help of the past with Bill Buxton
Episode 46, October 17, 2018 – In a wide-ranging interview, Bill Buxton explains why Marcel Proust and TS Eliot can be instructive for computer scientists, why the long nose of innovation is essential to success in technology design, why problem-setting…
In the news | Microsoft Research Podcast
Designing the future with the help of the past with Bill Buxton
In addition to his pioneering work in computer science and design, Bill Buxton has spent the past several decades amassing a collection of more than a thousand artifacts that chronicle the history of human computer interaction for the very purpose…